I am building a solution with Sitecore 7 and ASP.NET-MVC 3 and trying to use a custom model class as described in this blog post by john west. I have seen several other questions here on SO report...

Can anyone tell me the difference between Renderings and Sublayouts in Sitecore and when each should be used? And does it make any difference when you are using MVC. I've been going through a lot ...

I have a question regarding bucket items in Sitecore. I have following structure: I want to create a button on the 'test' detail page that goes back to the top bucket 'News overview'. Normally I w...

I've found that searches that contain 'of', 'and', 'the', etc. will not return results because Lucene has removed stop words. So if I search for a item that had a title of "Aftermath of the first w...

I have a working installation of Sitecore 7 + Glass Mapper 3 which I am looking to optimize. An example of my code is: [SitecoreQuery(".//*[@@templateid = '{011EC776-D9F3-4D73-8D8D-E454417E7574}'...

I have a Sitecore 7 Controller Rendering. I need to vary the OutputCache by a custom method. The rendering is currently set to "Cachable", "VaryByData" and "VaryByParm" in Sitecore. I've added an...

Sitecore CMS+DMS 6.6.0 rev.130404 => 7.0 rev.130424 In our project we have been using AdvancedDatabaseCrawler (ADC) for our indexes (specially because of it's dynamic fields feature). Here's a sam...

With Sitecore 7, most of my query strings have become custom routes. For example: OLD: /calendar?year=2013&month=7&day=14 NEW: /calendar/2013/7/14 As a result, I find myself in need of v...

I try to index PDF files with Sitecore 7. I installed IFilter , but I received on crawlers log next error : ManagedPoolThread #17 09:24:20 WARN LuceneIndexOperations : Update : Could not build d...

I am exploring the new Sitecore.ContentSearch "LINQ to Sitecore" API in Sitecore 7. It is my understanding that Sitecore recommends using the new LINQ API over the existing Sitecore.Search API, how...

Using Sitecore 7 - Is there a way I can specify what the placeholder of a template's control will be based on device? Example : Placeholder A if the device is Mobile else Placeholder B This is m...